Alternative Novels: Qurratulain Hyder

“The Inconvenient Indian” speaks to a general audience and particularly to US and Canada. The book is organized into chapters and each chapter refers to a variety of themes. Some of these themes are history, culture, politics, and laws. By incorporating all these themes,

Kishwar Naheed was born in 1940 in Buland shehr India. At the partition, her family moved to Pakistan. The bloodshed and savagery of partition left a permanent impression on her at a tender age. Her work spans for more than four decades and tells the tale of her experiences as a woman writer engaged in the creative endeavor and she has dealt with dark aspects of society. She is definitely a Matriarch of Urdu poetry and her stature is lodged in her prolificacy as a writer of common people. She has brought innovations in the form of free verse and prose poetry. Moreover, she has made the extensive transformations of radical poets from other languages. Kishwar Naheed,s poetic oeuvre consists of ten volumes of poetry. Adam Jee prize of Literature

The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif Conflict by Najaf Mazari and Robert Tillman is a novel about Najaf's memoir of having to live with conflict and of enduring its in-depth consequences. Melbourne-based fiction writer and biographer Robert Hillman helps Najaf tell his story and also the representation of the author in the novel. Hillman's collaboration with Najaf on The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif continues Zar-e-Sharif his literary preoccupation with the hardships and triumphs of ordinary people caught up in war and political unrest. The background of the book depicts Najaf's homeland that has a long history of violent and bitter armed conflict that spans centuries. This is partly due to the region's geography. As Najaf says, 'just look at the location of Afghanistan on a map of Asia and the Middle East, with neighbors' and near-neighbors' like Russia, Pakistan and Iran' (p.34). The area has enormous geographical and strategic significance. Foreign powers, from the ancient Macedonians through to the colonial British and communist Russians, have striven to secure territory or allies there, with little regard for the desires of the local people. This essay will give us an analysis of The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif's characters Najaf Mazari, and Gorg Aliant plus the plot of the book. The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif traces an Afghani refugee's extraordinary journey from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern

In his book All the Shah’s Men, Stephen Kinzer tells the story behind the coup that took place in Iran in 1953 and how US-Iranian relations were impacted as a result. To give a full picture of the events that transpired before the coup, Kinzer goes above and beyond and recounts the history of Persia going back to the founding of the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BC, giving the reader an excellent overview of the long history of the region. He then goes on to recount the root causes and events that led up to the coup and then covers the coup itself. Kinzer then devotes the last 40 pages going over the events that happened after the coup and the consequences that both nations have suffered for it. Kinzer’s point of view on this subject was obvious

Kim gives a vivid picture of the complexities in India under British rule. It shows the life of the bazaar mystics, of the natives, of the British military. There is a great deal of action and movement, for Kipling's vast canvas painted in full detail. The dialogue in the novel makes use of Indian phrases translated by the author, they give the flavor of native speech in India. They are also touches of the native behavior and shrewdness.

Afghanistan was once a place of beauty and enjoyment however since the Taliban new laws have been enforced, the country is slowly degrading. Using the codes and convention for non-print, print, non-fiction and fiction; to analysis how different texts manipulate similar issues to produce a similar message. All three of these texts, The Kite Runner by khaled Hosseini, Beneath the Veil by Saira Shah and “Execution of a teenage girl” from 4 Corners, all explore the main ideas of an Afghanistan life from different perspectives. Undoubtedly, these texts manipulate the specific aspects of their own genres in order to influence the audience response.

Sofia Cartaya Mr. Ceddia H English 10- Period D October 6, 2014 The Kite Runner Essay Mankind was not born with the internal inclement to hatred, but was taught to do so by his parents. For this reason the class distinctions in Afghanistan aids in the creation of the conflict between the young generations of characters in the novel. Written by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner is an all-time classic about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the personal view of just as small group of family and friends as they lived through it. To understand the novel, you must first understand the reason for the conflict between the Hazara and Pashtun classes.

The Kite Runner was published May 29, 2003 by Khaled Hosseini, an author from Afghanistan that now lives in California. It won the Award for Best Original Score in 2007. Hosseini tells the story of Amir, a Pashtun kid who tries to maintain relationships between his best friend, who is a Hazara, and his father that shamefully accused him of killing his mother even though she was killed through childbirth. According to Hosseini, an important understanding to take away from this novel is that religion in Afghanistan played a large role in social groups and it damaged many families emotionally and physically.

Social conditions are what shape a country. Over the years, people, not only in Afghanistan, but around the world create norms that define people’s roles in life, their future, and how they should be treated based on their gender and beliefs. Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, comments on the social conditions of Afghanistan through telling a story about the lives of two Muslim boys; a privileged Sunni Pashtun, Amir, and his long-time friend and servant, Hassan, a loyal but disadvantaged Shia Hazara. Hosseini expresses Amir’s uncertain feelings toward Hassan which form the decisions he makes throughout the book. These choices result in Amir destroying his relationship with Hassan. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is a commentary on the social conditions in Afghanistan as shown through the roles of women and men in society and the ideals of Afghan culture. Unfortunately, these problems are still active in most of Afghanistan.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a powerful and moving piece of fiction literature. Khaled Hosseini, born in the city of Kabul in 1965, is a successful author and is skilled “in pulling his readers’ heartstrings”. The title of this 367-page novel derived from the poem “Kabul” by the 17th-century Persian writer Saib-e-Tabrizi. It was published in 2007 by the Penguin Group (Monteiro). A Thousand Splendid Suns is a heart wrenching story, creating a picture of patriarchal despotism, women relying on men to survive, and causes the reader to experience a series of emotions towards the countless horrific events occurring throughout the novel.

Growing up in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini had a firsthand experience of the difficulties and hardships of life (Achievement 1). He was born in 1965 to his father, a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry, and his mother, a Farsi and history teacher at a high school in Kabul. He enjoyed flying kites when he was younger, describing them very vividly in The Kite Runner, and was inspired by films from India and the United States, which he discusses in A Thousand Splendid Suns (1). In the 70’s, Hosseini’s father was posted to Afghanistan’s embassy in Tehran, Iran. There, Hosseini gained his knowledge on classical Persian literary traditions that both countries share (1). It was here

Thesis Statement: Salman Rushdie’s novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, takes place in a gloomy city where the whole population is miserably sad and the only enjoyment they receive is from listening to storytellers tell magical stories. In the text, women are characterized as deceiving and untalented which occurs when Haroun’s mother leaves him along with his father and again with the Princess. Through the characters Soraya Khalifa and Princess Batcheat, Rushdie displays the marginalization of women to illustrate the theme that all people should have the same freedom and rights. I. Rushdie shows how women are marginalized and characterized as deceiving in the society of the book by using the character of Soraya Khalifa. A. Soraya Khalifa

Siblings, although not born within the same minute much like twins typically are, still surface from the same pool of genes. People that emerge from the same set of parents tend to not only have similar features, but also share the same characteristics. Akin to siblings, the best-selling novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini in the early twenty-first century parallels “Roman Fever”, a short story written by Edith Wharton in 1934. Despite their gap of publication, only a year shy of seventy years, these two novels are more related than one might originally consider.

The daily life of the Indians, the traditions of the land and indeed the superstitions and values of India gains a form in the remarkable novel “The Guide”. R.K.Narayan quite consciously in his novel “The Guide” echoes the more and tradition of the Indian society amidst his literal symbolism. R.K.Narayan’s chief concern is to give an artistic expression of Indian life. Though his art form is western, his theme, atmosphere, situations and scenes are truly Indian. This is how Narayan’s novels show Indian society negotiating the complex terrain of the modern. Malgudi, in that sense, becomes a laboratory where various possibilities and positions are tried. The Guide, undoubtedly Narayan’s best-known novel, as a narrative of modern India is about the nature of an ancient Indian institution, that of the guru, which indeed has no exact English counterpart. R. K. Narayan’s use of slightly lighter, slightly more frivolous and certainly more ambiguous word, “Guide,” is therefore telling.

Weather, climate and our feelings are inter-related to each other. When it’s dawn, we feel fresh but on the other hand sometimes during the twilight we tend to wear a sad face. Khushwant Sing has thus begun his novel by relating the situation of that India which was trying to digest the partition thing by the often considered, tiring, torturous summer. People were emotionless and there was no warmth of love. That warmth in turn turned out to be a hot blazing fire licking the Indian continent which was called as communal riots, in local level and in broader level,